Mateo Cerezo the Younger (1637 - 1666)

In the latter half of the 17th century, Cerezo was one of the best-known representatives of the Madrid school. He painted large-scale altar-pieces and small devotional pictures. His precise rendering of diverse materialities also made him a master of baroque still-life painting. He probably trained initially with his father in Burgos before going to Madrid in the 1650s. In 1659 he worked in Valladolid, then finally settled in Madrid in 1660. Cerezo learned much from the royal collections in the Palazzo Real. His religious paintings were influenced by 16th-century Venetian models.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 122